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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Comart Foundation

Funds to provide services to children and youth environmental programmes international development humane society

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$77k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$450k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.2M
C$50,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. FRANCIS XAVIERC$1,170,000
STELLA'S PLACEC$200,000
ONTARIO NATURALIST FEDERATION (ONTARIO NATURE)C$100,000
CENTENNIAL INFANT AND CHILD CENTREC$100,000
SAFE'N SOUND RESIDENCEC$50,000
PETERBOROUGH HUMANE SOCIETYC$40,000
THRIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENTC$15,000
POTTERS WITHOUT BORDERSC$12,000
SAN DAMIANO FOUNDATIONC$10,200
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$10M · 13 repeat orgsC$810k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

C$10M
C$745k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+10%

Still filing today

85%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.7M · revenue +16%
  • AH
    ANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$1.1M · revenue +222%
  • ON
    ONTARIO NATURALISTFEDERATION (ONTARIO NATURE)
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$505k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • RC
    REACH CENTRE GREY BRUCE
    one grant, 2020 · C$230k · revenue +10% · 34% of their budget
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -47%
  • SD
    SHARED DREAMS FOR INDEPENDANTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$75k · revenue +304%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Imagine Canada

Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization whose cause is Canada's charities and nonprofits. Its four Strategic Directions are to: energize the sector's voices; ensure the sector's relevance; influence the sector's environment;…

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2
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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3
Mars Discovery District

Mars (www.marsdd.com) is a leading urban innovation hub located in toronto's discovery district. mars supports young high growth ventures in the health cleantech and information technology sectors whilst connecting customers partners…

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4
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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5
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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6
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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7
Social Innovation Canada

'Provides workshops conferences and demonstration projects on Social Innovation research and similar topics including evaluation and systems change. Supports activities specifically in the social and environmental entrepreneurship sector…

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8
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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9
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights Centre Canadien du Droit au logement

Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) previously known as Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation in Ontario (CERA) is one of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit charities working to advance the right to adequate housing. Founded in…

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10
Mississauga Foundation

First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and…

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11
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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12
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and the most unlike its peers is Young Imaginations - a Creative Arts Centre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST. FRANCIS XAVIER — C$5,657,467 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE — C$1,631,000 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$1,070,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetINASMUCH FOUNDATION — C$762,500 over 7y, 95% of budgetONTARIO NATURALISTFEDERATION (ONTARIO NATURE) — C$505,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCENTENNIAL INFANT INFANT AND CHILD CARE FOUNDATION — C$260,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetREACH CENTRE GREY BRUCE — C$230,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY — C$200,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPotters without Borders — C$109,076 over 8y, 82% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETERBOROUGH HUMANE SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDURHAM ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY RESPITE — C$70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAFE'N SOUND RESIDENCE — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetUNITED CHURCH OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentenial Infant & Child Care Fdl — C$44,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFUTURE WATCH ENVIRONMENTAL — C$41,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSan Damiano Foundation — C$27,200 over 3y, 12% of budgetMETROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeer Support Accroditation — C$20,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHRIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF KAWARTHA LAKES — C$10,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetGreen Durham Association — C$6,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetSKETCH WORKING ARTS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYour Imajinations — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOutside Looking In — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAF (Charitake Impat Fdr Cda) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The McLean FoundationAubrey & Marla Dan Fo…Toronto FoundationYouth and Philanthrop…Charities Aid Foundat…Link Charity Canada I…Canada GivesCharitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Aqueduct FoundationAbundance Canada
The McLean FoundationON8.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Link Charity Canada Inc · Canada Gives · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Abundance Canada

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 888037645:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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